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Factory reset will not replace the two files. It will wipe the data though and there's no way Best Buy will know the files are missing out of the load.

You need the files from /xbin that you killed. I don't have them handy - maybe someone else does. There could be a problem restoring them however as without root you can't remount the /system directory writable. I suspect you'll have to gingerbreak the phone to get root back.

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I had a similar problem. I rooted by symlinking like you did, then installed busybox and superuser. After a bit I decided I really didn't need to be rooted, so I used the root explorer option on Es file explorer and deleted the busybox binary from xbin, and deleted su from bin and xbin the same way. Then I uninstalled superuser. Now when I type sudo, I get permission denied. I made sure the sudo binary is still there in xbin, and it is. Wtf?

Interestingly, if I install superuser and then try sudo, the superuser prompt comes up and by clicking Allow, sudo will go through. But I didn't need superuser to do that before!

Maybe a leftover configuration file from superuser or some such? Idk. I'm just starting to get into all this hacking business